Etapa numero dos...

Okay, now for the second leg of the trip. On Monday of our trip,
a guide acquired us at the Chateau Caribbean (French name,
Chinese owners, British/Caribbean colonial architecture) and
took us on the most adventurous portion of our trip. First, we
drove an hour to reach our destination: the rain forest. We saw
some interesting characters along the way, including some
cyclists training for the Tour de Belize and a creature of strange dimensions consisting of two Belizeans, one bicycle, and an oversized truck tire.


After arriving at the rain forest, we strapped on our safety gear and went ZIPLINING!! It was awesome! We had people that had never even flown before the trip that were brave enough to try it! It was pretty fulfilling to see them thrive outside of their comfort zones.




After ziplining through the rain forest canopy, we indulged in a little cave tubing. It was nice to float along and marvel at the natural wonders. I wish I had gotten a picture of the tubing (camera+water=new camera) as well as a huge wasp dragging a TARANTULA across our path. We walked further and accepted the opportunity to eat termites. I know what your thinking, but they taste, not surprisingly, of wood and mint. After our activities, we stopped at a roadside bar with chicken wire for windows and ate the most indescribably good stewed chicken and rice and beans (Belizean national dish). Our guide ate like the wind, indicating to us that we should do the same in order to get to the Belize Zoo before it closed. The Zoo was great with many native animals to Belize present. I will just put in a few to give an idea of the bio-diversity...


















And many others including howler monkeys, a puma, a harpy eagle, etc., etc. After this day, we transferred over to Corozal Town, which is in the north part of the country. Before we got there, we had more amazing adventures, which I will present in the next post...